You had latin1
somewhere. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/38363567/1766831https://stackoverflow.com/a/38363567/1766831 . Do...
- the
SELECT HEX ...
to see whether you have the correct utf8 encoding:E28099
. SHOW CREATE TABLE
to see whatCHARACTER SET
that column has.SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'char%';
to see what the connection is like.
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